August 2012 - Arch-general - lists.archlinux.org

[arch-general] Polkit and systemd
by Manolo Martínez 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

Hello, If I'm not wrong, systemd makes consolekit superfluous. This is what I thought it took for polkit to work with systemd: * compile polkit with --enable-systemd * enable the systemd polkit service * that's it? But that's not it. Although polkit seems to work in console, it does not work in X. This is not terribly surprising, because I haven't done anything equivalent to launching my WM under "ck-launch-session", as I used to do with consolekit. Is there an equivalent way of launching the window manager under systemd-acting-as-consolekit? I should explain that I'm using no display manager, and I'd like to keep it this way, if at all possible. Cheers, Manolo --

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[arch-general] Thunar: incorrect sort order
by brainworker＠lavabit.com 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

>>> Thunar doesn't use LC_COLLATE, it has its own sorting algorithms, which >>> had some bugs with Latin characters in the past. So this is an upstream >>> issue which should be reported to the Thunar devs. >> >> I wrote about it in thunar mailing list. Nobody replied. >> > They are so lame :( Any chances with an IRC channel? For those who are still interested in situation with Thunar concerning sort order. It turned out that in Thunar's bugzilla there is already bug report opened long time ago. I just added comment there but it seems that the problem is not fixed since then. https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7110 So, I filed new bug report: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9218 Maybe they pay attention to this more seriously.

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[arch-general] polkit package upgrade patch
by Ray Kohler 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

As it's been marked out-of-date for a while, and I'm interested in it, I've done the work to upgrade the polkit package to 0.107. I've tested this package locally. The main value of this upgrade (for me at least) is systemd integration, including proper systemd-style bus activation. This now wants a dedicated user and group, by default 'polkitd'. I re-used 102, which was listed as 'policykit' in the UID/GID database. Hopefully it really was unused. The build depends on this user and group already being present (otherwise 'make install' fails to chown some directories, and polkitd fails to read them and dies). It now depends on 'js', which I added. Addition of one more 8 MB dep doesn't seem a problem. As we now have pambase, the shipped pam config, which just uses system-auth, is useful to us. I removed the old, locally written, pam file. Let me know if you'd rather I put this patch in the bugtracker.

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[arch-general] old rc.sysinit?
by Jorge Almeida 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

I would like to know how Arch used to deal with some init stuff, like configuring virtual consoles, initializing random seed, etc. Is there some way to retrieve older versions of /etc/rc.sysinit? TIA Jorge Almeida

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[arch-general] [System update] dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem
by Martin Cigorraga 15 Aug '12

15 Aug '12

~# pacman -Syu ... ... (6/6) checking package integrity [---------------------------------------] 100% (6/6) loading package files [---------------------------------------] 100% (6/6) checking for file conflicts [---------------------------------------] 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) dhcpcd: /usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd@.service exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. ~ # I presume in this case is safe to -f, I can rename the conflicting package too, but I would like to know how's the right way to proceed here. Thanks! -- -msx

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[arch-general] Using ATTR{flags} in udev rules
by Leonid Isaev 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hi, While building an Arch-based wireless router I ran into a problem of persistent NIC naming. To differentiate which interfaces go to WAN and LAN, I have created a simple udev rule like this /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules # On-board NIC (Realtek, r8169) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}==mac, NAME="wan" # USB ethernet adapter (Asix) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}==mac, NAME="elan0" # PCI card (dlink dwa-552, ath9k) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}==mac, NAME="wap" These work OK until hostapd starts. It creates a bridge br0=(wap) and also a "mon.wap" interface. Both new interfaces share the same mac address as "wap" which confuses udev, as it tries to rename them as well and fails. Matching parent devices is not enough because "wap" and "mon.wap" have the same parent. However, ATTR{flags} is different for the two (at the device level). What does this attribute mean and is it a good idea to use it in a ruleset? Thanks. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key: 0x164B5A6D Fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D

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[arch-general] XServer: Display errors beyond virtual x-coord 2640
by Tobias Frilling 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I found a strange problem today after connecting my new monitor to my computer. With the new monitor I am using a multi monitor setup of size 3200 x 1080. But it seems some applications are having troubles displaying anything beyond the apparently magical line of the (virtual) x-coord 2640. The troublemakers so far are: - - GVim which renders no text beyond the magical line. This happens mid-character. vim in a terminal behaves fine. - - Tint2 which shows no application icons in the system tray after 2640. Also happens mid-icon. The clock has no problems. The rendering of icons in xfce4-panel works strangely. - - MPlayer,MPlayer2, VLC, Skype those freeze, but only in the "danger zone"; so they play a partially frozen video - - xterm same problem as with GVim. Other terminals (rxvt, Roxterm) are fine. - - Conky Same as Gvim and xterm Most other applications are not affected by this bug. This problem seems to be independent from the window manager, as it occurs in openbox-multihead, vanilla openbox, i3, dwm and awesome. I am enabling my multihead setup via xrandr: xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --pos 1280x0 --output LVDS --auto --pos 0x280 Package infos: - - xorg-server 1.12.3.901-1 - - xorg-xrandr 1.3.5-1 - - libxrandr 1.4.0-1 - - libxinerama 1.1.2-1 - - xf86-video-ati 1:6.14.6-1 Further information: xrandr output: https://pzt.me/7o17 Xorg.0.log: https://pzt.me/9fb4 Here are some pictures. As you can see, the text gets cut mid-character, but strangely, the textdecoration is not affected. http://img.vim-cn.com/af/ea943e3e903364fc9fc0d00d7ccd09f980bc40 http://img.vim-cn.com/ed/3ec2f5a955fefccbfa29d9d7b7356ea9669348 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJQKnNDAAoJENVg3RpC7ZC8fDoQALQLvuYhPgAGsxC6pxzLTNQ2 cZoRg+DoC2nFd2dimBYBCWhR/bNITZVwKvh7Wr2YQs3X0C4BcFX6VWUNcB7mj5cO RTNtXIlhwjHMg3B92bRIGbCQdSWlQeTbX+RdKBtJioVHdQR+jcUd8ShbYInbMcOK 2jSM/1P0dAULInAh/tsqPONNaDdPS7bD+tM1u0IyfvwMFUpKVGGgz8DY0i0a/3Oe xKkyG7xWdYLfc1Y2B4TTzQTUykE1MiXd6xlB+ASoJcZMBxqZpGSYrHSe0+lMo0bx emOHBI5iNQPAgG3yDbnC9uvMvKZDSrcifmFj6WoM1cEjXIlOFB63TYJgm2KDzDEl EWmQRr3FSDKmwa5P9jGnCQisIgIkCkodlGK0am683ilTp7Zc108y9joBU39IkynA U9eKBg8aCSS0bCpBeBbvGmJKPjH+VtTCpnZ0EXTXeuNzh9TkSpt17q+XyCDXDht/ 3kaXGvhsY6twR7EzGSvcf6hc524GoFd6xb0cY1uJxvFb2f+7IU5C2hmndVi3SbBR H8gwNrxCO7oayhLLe/44DjkMKPrHOSPEQOVEEN48nVYmmIUQjzn2+K8r5KVULFsM ISwFHfWMR0j8EcBN/u/gWEdMCHv3bW4q0hs7bdyUGBjY7hdchmJ53DGvkMI//HIU h9uF1N+qQCEobiwkWFvR =GfOd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[arch-general] ip addr show doesn't show my ipv4 address after update, is this expected behaviour?
by Oon-Ee Ng 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Hi, iproute2 just got updated to 3.5.0-1 (previously was 3.4.0-2), because I use [testing]. ip addr show seems to work differently now, showing me my ipv6 assigned address by default rather than my ipv4 address (which was what I previously got when running ip addr show. The man page for ip-address says the command 'displays addresses and their properties', which means it should at least show the ipv4 address as well? I'm wondering whether this is simply an upstream change/bug, since the man page is a bit unclear and a change in behaviour is normally mentioned in man pages (isn't it?). Of course, easy to workaround using ip -4 addr show....

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[arch-general] [KDE - Can't make Akonadi server / Nepomuk service run]
by Martin Cigorraga 14 Aug '12

14 Aug '12

Ok, I know a lot of you cynics would say: "it's fine, why would do you want Nepomuk running anyways!?" The truth is my laptop HD went dead some days ago so I had to restore my system from a 2-weeks old backup; I usually use fsarchiver to backup root partition and 7z to compress ~/.kde4 so this way I'm covered up about these kind of things. So after restoring my system and home folder I did a full upgrade (nearly a gigabyte of downloads) and while most things seems to work well I found that Nepomuk isn't running, when I try to start it manually I have this error message: "Failed to start the desktop search service (Nepomuk). The settings have been saved and will be used the next time the server is started." Going back to the wiki I did my homework re-configuring Akonadi but so far I can't make Nepomuk run. This is what I have: ~/.config/akonadi/akonadiserverrc [%General] Driver=QMYSQL [QMYSQL] Name=akonadi Host=localhost ServerPath=/usr/bin/mysqld StartServer=true User=akonadiuser Password=akonadiuser Options="UNIX_SOCKET=/home/msx/.local/share/akonadi/socket-heybeavis/mysql.socket" [Debug] Tracer=null The database is already created and configured: mysql> show databases; +--------------------+ | Database | +--------------------+ | information_schema | | akonadi | mysql | owncloud | performance_schema | +--------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) and the ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf is in place: ~ $ cat ~/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf # # Global Akonadi MySQL server settings, # These settings can be adjusted using $HOME/.config/akonadi/mysql-local.conf # # Based on advice by Kris Köhntopp <kris(a)mysql.com> # [mysqld] # strict query parsing/interpretation # TODO: make Akonadi work with those settings enabled # sql_mode=strict_trans_tables,strict_all_tables,strict_error_for_division_by_zero,no_auto_create_user,no_auto_value_on_zero,no_engine_substitution,no_zero_date,no_zero_in_date,only_full_group_by,pipes_as_concat sql_mode=strict_trans_tables # DEBUGGING: # log all queries, useful for debugging but generates an enormous amount of data # log=mysql.full # log queries slower than n seconds, log file name relative to datadir (for debugging only) # log_slow_queries=mysql.slow # long_query_time=1 # log queries not using indices, debug only, disable for production use # log_queries_not_using_indexes=1 # # mesure database size and adjust innodb_buffer_pool_size # SELECT sum(data_length) as bla, sum(index_length) as blub FROM information_schema.tables WHERE table_schema not in ("mysql", "information_schema"); # NOTES: # Keep Innob_log_waits and keep Innodb_buffer_pool_wait_free small (see show global status like "inno%", show global variables) #expire_logs_days=3 #sync_bin_log=0 # Use UTF-8 encoding for tables character_set_server=utf8 collation_server=utf8_general_ci # use InnoDB for transactions and better crash recovery default_storage_engine=innodb # memory pool InnoDB uses to store data dictionary information and other internal data structures (default:1M) innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=1M # memory buffer InnoDB uses to cache data and indexes of its tables (default:128M) # Larger values means less I/O innodb_buffer_pool_size=80M # Create a .ibd file for each table (default:0) innodb_file_per_table=1 # Write out the log buffer to the log file at each commit (default:1) innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=2 # Buffer size used to write to the log files on disk (default:1M for builtin, 8M for plugin) # larger values means less I/O innodb_log_buffer_size=1M # Size of each log file in a log group (default:5M) larger means less I/O but more time for recovery. innodb_log_file_size=64M # # error log file name, relative to datadir (default:hostname.err) log_error=mysql.err # print warnings and connection errors (default:1) log_warnings=2 # Convert table named to lowercase lower_case_table_names=1 # Maximum size of one packet or any generated/intermediate string. (default:1M) max_allowed_packet=32M # Maximum simultaneous connections allowed (default:100) max_connections=256 # The two options below make no sense with prepared statements and/or transactions # (make sense when having the same query multiple times) # Memory allocated for caching query results (default:0 (disabled)) query_cache_size=0 # Do not cache results (default:1) query_cache_type=0 # Do not use the privileges mechanisms skip_grant_tables # Do not listen for TCP/IP connections at all skip_networking # The number of open tables for all threads. (default:64) table_cache=200 # How many threads the server should cache for reuse (default:0) thread_cache_size=3 # wait 365d before dropping the DB connection (default:8h) wait_timeout=31536000 [client] default-character-set=utf8 Now, when I do restart Akonadi server I got: ~ $ akonadictl restart Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) search paths: ("/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/sbin", "/usr/bin/vendor_perl", "/usr/bin/core_perl", "/usr/bin/msx", "/usr/lib/colorgcc/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/local/libexec", "/usr/libexec", "/opt/mysql/libexec", "/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin", "/opt/mysql/sbin") ~ $ akonadi.collectionattributetable OK akonadi.collectionmimetyperelation OK akonadi.collectionpimitemrelation OK akonadi.collectiontable OK akonadi.flagtable OK akonadi.mimetypetable OK akonadi.parttable OK akonadi.pimitemflagrelation OK akonadi.pimitemtable OK akonadi.resourcetable OK akonadi.schemaversiontable OK Nepomuk Query Server not available Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) search paths: ("/usr/local/bin", "/usr/bin", "/bin", "/usr/local/sbin", "/usr/sbin", "/sbin", "/usr/bin/vendor_perl", "/usr/bin/core_perl", "/usr/bin/msx", "/usr/lib/colorgcc/bin") KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work KGlobal::locale::Warning your global KLocale is being recreated with a valid main component instead of a fake component, this usually means you tried to call i18n related functions before your main component was created. You should not do that since it most likely will not work "/usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(13892)" Soprano: "Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-msx/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory)" "/usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(13892)" Soprano: "Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-msx/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory)" "/usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(13892)" Soprano: "Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-msx/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory)" "/usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(13892)" Soprano: "Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-msx/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory)" search paths: ("/home/msx/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/home/msx/.kde4/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins/", "/usr/lib/qt/plugins", "/usr/bin", "/usr/lib/kde4/plugins", "/home/msx/.kde4/lib/kde4/", "/usr/lib/kde4/") AkonadiAgentServer(13913)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: AkonadiAgentServer(13913)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig: Please correct me if I'm wrong but seems Akonadi can't/don't create the resource needed by Nepomuk, right? "/usr/bin/akonadi_nepomuk_feeder(13892)" Soprano: "Could not connect to server at /tmp/ksocket-msx/nepomuk-socket (No such file or directory)" Already raked the forums and the net but can't find anything of help :( Regards, Martin -- -msx

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-announce] netcfg-2.8.9 drops initscripts compatibility
by David Hunter 13 Aug '12

13 Aug '12

On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Florian Pritz <announce(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Florian Pritz wrote: > > All interfaces should now be configured in `/etc/conf.d/netcfg` rather than > `/etc/rc.conf`. > > URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/netcfg-289-drops-initscripts-compatibility/ The title of this article seems like it's going to cause a lot of confusion and anger. It seems to imply that if you're using initscripts, then you cannot use netcfg at all. But of course, that's not the case. This is merely the removal of a deprecated feature that was warned about in a previous news post [1]. [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/netcfg-282-release/

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